Prevalence and some risk factors of bovine heamotropic mycoplasma in Nineveh province - Iraq | ||
| Iraqi Journal of Veterinary Sciences | ||
| Article 38, Volume 33, Issue 2, September 2019, Pages 427-431 PDF (669.21 K) | ||
| Document Type: Research Paper | ||
| DOI: 10.33899/ijvs.2019.163170 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Salam Abd Esmaeel* 1; Basima albadrani2 | ||
| 1College Veterinary medicine,Internal and preventive medicine,Univercity of mosul,Iraq. | ||
| 2department of internal and preventive medicine | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The objective of current study was to determine the prevalence of bovine heamotropic mycoplasma in cattle using conventional polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in Nineveh province/ Iraq, to investigate some of the epidemiological risk factors associated with occurrence of the disease. From September 2017 - September 2018, four hundred blood samples were obtained from cattle both sexes, different ages, origin, different management systems and from different regions in Nineveh province, ten milliliter blood were collected from the jugular vein for PCR test, whatever epidemiological data were collected through interview with the farms owners. The results of this study appear that the prevalence of bovine heamotropic mycoplasma was 75%. The risk factors associated with increased prevalence of disease include age, increased prevalence was at >3 years, females, imported animals, indoor animals which were 86.8, 80, 91.7, 77.5% respectively. The significantly increased prevalence of the disease 93.7% in the western regions of Nineveh province. In spring and summer months a significantly increased prevalence of disease which were 79.6 and 78.95 respectively. In conclusions, this study detected that bovine heamotropic mycoplasma was widely distributed in Nineveh province associated with several risk factors. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Heamotropic mycoplasma; prevalence; Bovine; Nineveh; Iraq | ||
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